Shibanee and Kamal Architects, principal architects of Bangalore-based Total Environment Building Systems Pvt Ltd, designed the BHAU Institute of Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Leadership (BIEL) for the College of Engineering, Pune. Located on the bank of river Mula in Maharashtra, India, the Institute is intended to nurture innovation, encourage entrepreneurship, and develop leadership. The INR 60 million building provides educational and research space within an unconventional, bi-directionally curved structure that blends in visually with the college’s 160-year-old campus. The structural engineers used Bentley’s STAAD.Pro® to deliver the precise analysis and visualization that enabled the evaluation of the curved wall itself as a load-bearing element. This substantially reduced the cost of the entire project.